http://www.allforwomen.com.au/australia-toy-recalls/ Online Community for Australian Women to connect and make friends Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:38:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.allforwomen.com.au/australia-toy-recalls/comment-page-1/#comment-6459 Dan Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:05:39 +0000 http://www.allforwomen.com.au/2007/08/australia-toy-recalls/#comment-6459 I sell toys on the internet and am new the toys business. Clearly, the number of recent and historical lead paint recalls is very disturbing. What I learned was that most of the recent recalls are due to the presence of lead in surface paint on the toy. The toy industry has for years been permitted by US government rules to put lead in toy paint in the under or prime coatings at a level if found in a surface coating would cauase a recall. We need to get the government out of making logical and technical regulations and just use common sense. It is simple NO LEAD IN OUR CHILDREN"S toys. The cost of using paint without lead costs pennies more per toy and as a dad (and a retailer) I am more than willing to pay the price to keep my child safe. I sell toys on the internet and am new the toys business. Clearly, the number of recent and historical lead paint recalls is very disturbing. What I learned was that most of the recent recalls are due to the presence of lead in surface paint on the toy. The toy industry has for years been permitted by US government rules to put lead in toy paint in the under or prime coatings at a level if found in a surface coating would cauase a recall. We need to get the government out of making logical and technical regulations and just use common sense. It is simple NO LEAD IN OUR CHILDREN”S toys. The cost of using paint without lead costs pennies more per toy and as a dad (and a retailer) I am more than willing to pay the price to keep my child safe.

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